My Books

This website started as means to publicize the hardcopy books that I
was having published. Of course, over time, the website took on a life
of its own, and any promotion of my hardcopy work is now purely
incidental. But make no mistake, I am proud of the books I
have written. When I found out that The Little Book of Heroin
was selling well to high school libraries, I was
thrilled. The reason is that I want to educate people about heroin
and the opioids. I love the idea that high school students have
access to objective information, instead of the drug
"education" books that fill most high school
libraries--hysterical
information that more often glorify the drug than anything.

Thus far, I have published three books. One of the books, the one about
opium was co-written with my wife, The Helper.
Other books are in the pipeline, however. The links below
give you overviews of the books along with corrections and
updates.

From my extensive experience reading drug books, I have found these
books fall into one of three categories:

Professional Books These are books written for and by
doctors. Often, they have a lot of really valuable information; the
problem is that they are highly technical. I have a Ph.D. in physics
and most of the time, I have to work very hard to decipher these
kinds of books.

Anti-Drug Propaganda
These books appear to present objective information about drugs
but instead they are entirely rhetorical. Such books can be dangerous.
Take, for example, Heroin by Sandra Lee Smith. This book is
aimed at teens and their parents. It paints a picture of heroin as
this evil drug that teens cannot help but encounter. It is melodrama
masquerading as objective information. In this case, the author has
no credentials. In many cases, the author has impressive qualifications
and this makes the situation even worse.

Pro-Drug Propaganda
Although these books are just as subjective as their anti-drug
counterparts, they have the advantage that they are up-front about their
purpose. These are books that show how to grow marijuana or make
opium tea, or clean street cocaine.

The books that I have written fall most closely into category 3, but
they are not propaganda. I have tried my best to show the good and
bad aspects of drug taking. I don't want people to take drugs but if
they are taking them, I want them to know how to do it properly and
safely.